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Posted by: aku
hmm... I assumed that with all the legal crap, going around it may make someone wet their pants. Then again, making a lawyer wet their $5000 slacks would be fun. By all means, go for it.
Man, I WISH I owned some $5000 slacks.
Anyway, the fact is that restricting entries to the 50 United States and Canada are boilerplate (lawyer talk for "typical") provisions for pretty much every contest and sweepstakes that any organization runs in the US. The reasons why involve simplicity, mostly, as well as self-protection. Microsoft does not want to have to send a team of 10 lawyers to defend a claim in Upper Siberia because somebody thought that they were going to get paid for submitting a Halo 3 emblem.
By restricting the contest to USA and Canada, the contest can also be restricted to the body of law that the company is familiar with without having to worry about some newly enacted law in Albania that they never heard of that provides for a 10 zillion dollar fine for any contest or sweepstakes.
I am currently practicing law here in the United States, so I'm not permitted to give out legal advice in situations like this, but I did want to give you some background information that will hopefully ease your mind that it's not Bungie or Microsoft who is purposely trying to shut out the rest of the world, but rather it's Bungie's/Microsoft's lawyers. As usual, they are to blame ;-)
[Edited on 05.03.2007 2:17 AM PDT]